If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

The speaker frames grief and recovery not as erasing the past but as integrating it. The line argues that painful consequences are inseparable from genuine attachment: if the love was real, it necessarily shaped events and left a mark. “Letting it go” therefore isn’t denial or self-reproach; it is an acceptance that the relationship mattered, that the aftermath is part of its reality, and that one can move forward without disowning what was felt. The quote emphasizes emotional honesty—acknowledging both love and loss—as a prerequisite for healing and for releasing fixation on how things “should” have turned out.